Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects: Practical Guidance and Examples

By Peter Farrell, Fred Sherratt and Alan Richardson

Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects will help you to write a good dissertation or project by giving you a good understanding of what should be included, and showing you how to use data collection and analysis tools in the course of your research.

• Addresses prominent weaknesses in under-graduate dissertations including weak data collection; superficial analysis and poor reliability and validity
• Includes many more in-depth examples making it easy to understand and assimilate the concepts presented
• Issues around study skills and ethics are embedded throughout the book and the many examples encourage you to consider the concepts of reliability and validity
• Second edition includes a new chapter on laboratory based research projects
• Supporting website with sample statistical calculations and additional examples from a wider range of built environment subjects 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Mar 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781118921913

Peter Farrell

Peter Farrell is the author of five novels, four screenplays and various magazine articles. The themes are, invariably, marine related, island connected and with characters of the eccentric flavor. The action? Well, that can get hot. A Vietnam era veteran, the author finished his schooling courtesy of the State of New York University system. He has taught in the public schools, owned a bar, caught fish and delivered more boats throughout the Caribbean and along the East Coast than he cares to count.